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The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has rejected the new guidelines for the accreditation of media organisations and journalists covering the National Assembly, slamming them as primitive, undemocratic and blatantly anti-press and anti-people. The guidelines issued by authorities of the National Assembly (NASS) are due to become effective from June 11 2019. Most contentious of […]

Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, has threatened to file a N2 billion suit against the Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on social media, Lauretta Onochie, for damaging his character and reputation through the spread of “lies” on twitter. In the alternative, […]

An Israeli political marketing firm helped launder the image of President Muhammadu Buhari before the Feb 23 general election, a report by an American think tank said. Digital Forensic Research Lab said Tel-Aviv based political consulting and lobbying firm, Archimedes Group, deliberately smeared the image of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Atiku Abubakar on […]

Even by his own loquacious standards for verbal diarrhea, the misguided verbal ejaculation of the governor-elect of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule against his first wife, Hajia Silifa Sule was a fundamental lack of expression, which set a new low, in what, unfortunately, has become the unedifying trademark of the talkative incoming governor. Before God, man, […]

Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, yesterday dismissed a suit filed by the Legal Defence and Assistant Project (LEDAP), praying the court to declare the seats of Senate President Bukola Saraki; House Speaker, Yakubu Dogara and over 50 members of the 8th National Assembly vacant for defecting from their political parties last […]

PDP The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 23 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar and his party the PDP has asked the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) to replace tribunal chairperson, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, with another Justice of the Court of Appeal, citing conflict of interests and apprehensions over the likelihood of […]

The Federal Government has condemned the increasingly `unpatriotic and desperate’ opposition politics being played by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who issued the condemnation while addressing State House correspondents in Abuja, warned that the PDP and Atiku’s post-election activities could be […]

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has reviewed Nigeria’s economic development, particularly in the last 50 years, and concluded that “the country has receded.” According to Emefiele who appeared before the Senate for screening in respect of his re-appointment, times ahead would be very tough and rough. The Senate on […]

Ailing former Green Eagles Captain, Christian Chukwu, arrived United Kingdom in company with his wife Lilian Nkeiruka, Thursday for medical treatment. Chukwu, who captained Nigeria’s senior national team to win the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time in 1980, travelled with his wife aboard a Virgin Atlantic airline flight from Lagos. Nigeria Football […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission has postponed Kogi and Bayelsa State governorship elections following appeals from the Bayelsa State government that the previous day falls on the national Thanksgiving Day of the state. Festus Okoye, INEC’s Head of Voters Education, said the two states’ elections, scheduled to hold on November 2, have been moved to […]

Transparency International (TI) on Wednesday disclosed that Nigeria loses not less than $17 billion annually through illicit financial flows. The Executive Director of TI and Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, stated this in Abuja during a meeting of his organization with its West Africa chapters. While insisting that the political and […]

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) on Wednesday, fixed May 22 to entertain an application by Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 23 presidential election, seeking the recusal of the tribunal chairperson, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, from the five-man panel. Atiku and the PDP are seeking the withdrawal of Justice […]